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It's also probably the most common type of breach. It's way easier to compromise tech support than find a vulnerability, so it makes a ton of sense for a company like Blizzard to have an auditing team to test the various attack vectors.

Yep, absolutely.

The uh, funniest one that sticks in my memory was the hack of basically an early build of GTA 6.

Somebody social engineered their way into someone at Rockstar who had some level of admin acces, I think via fake / intercepted and reformed 2FA auths to the target's phone, along with some spear phishing.

Then, they were proficient enough to exploit thier way throughout the intranet... but not smart enough to cover all their tracks.

A lot of roles like QA and cyber security sound glamorous, but that's because people like glamorous titles. If you've spent even a tiny amount of time working in a relevant industry (in this case, anything touching computers), you should be able to read between the lines.

You would think this, but everywhere I have worked in the industry... most people cannot infact read between the lines.

I've attended and even spoken at some tech conferences, and they're like 90% entry level stuff with a handful of interesting events and talks that actually break some new ground.

Impressive!

I've been to some, never spoken though... also, not DEFCON though.

I imagine cyber security conferences are similar. (mostly exist for networking)

I agree.

But yeah, streamers like to appear like they know their stuff because that's what gets people to watch.

Yeah, but Thor takes it to an uncommon point of basically being a conman, with his so much of his reputation built, by himself, on vastly overstated credentials.

Its like getting a 2 year nursing assistant degrer and then acting as if you can safely perform a brain surgery.

Welp, I guess sufficiently melanated Italians are back to being 'not white' in the US.

He did technically end up in cybersecurity, but basically yeah, a role that involves almost zero actual technical skill.

He did social engineering, aka, worming his way into people's emails and texts and social circles, sending fake 'your account has been comprimised, send me your user name and password to fix' type shit.

Ironically, social engineering is quite a fitting uh, subclass, for a low technical skill, high charisma narcissist to slot into.

He thought hacking and DEFCON was the coolest convention to go to, so him and some buddies... won the scavenger hunt badge, I believe thats more or less running around the Con with your network analyzer open on your phone, to find wifi/bluetooth enabled hidden scavenger hunt items, maybe with a couple extra steps.

Its literally a gimmick badge, its not really anything to do with actual pentesting, nothing like developing a totally novel exploit.

EDIT: Like, I am reasonably confident I know more about ethical hacking than he does, just having futzed around with tryhackme and some other free online sort of, 'basics of hacking' tutorials with simulated demonstrations on VMs, for a few years in my spare time.

Ask him what SYN, SYN-ACK and ACK are, and why they are important, and I'm guessing he would have to look it up, whilst making it look like he is not looking it up.

Not....webbed feet.

Webbed feet is when there is ... webbing, skin connecting between your toes, like a swimming flipper, as a duck does, though its usually not that pronounced when it occurs in humans.

Hers have been deformed by her wearing extremely poorly fitting shoes her whole life, and/or possibly just had fucked up toe alignment to some extent, to begin with.

More like foot bondage, but less extreme, and self imposed.

Think of how if your teeth grow in funny, you may need braces to better align them.

Well, this is sorta like that, but where the shoes are functionally the braces, and they're all fucked up and force the toes into an extreme configuration over time.

EDIT:

Basically, MTG is Cinderella's evil half or step sisters.

They kept jamming their feet into badly sized and badly formed fancy shoes, and at least in the original version, they actually cut off parts of their feet to try and literally fill Cinderella's shoes, but the Prince kept noticing the blood, and them walking awkwardly.

MTG has just been jamming her feet into, eh, likely needle point pumps of some kind, for so long, that they've smushed her pinky toes under and behind the adjacent toe, and the other toes have splayed out to compensate for the lack of balance that causes.

Shouldn't be hard for him, I'm sure he has a lot of prior experience with boot-licking, how hard of s lateral skill transfer can bootstrap based levitation be?

Yep.

Parts of Gen Z, and a lot of Gen A, will 100% seriously tell you that learning basically anything other than how to prompt ChatGPT is a stupid waste of time.

They'll all go feral when they can no longer afford it or the power goes out or the system crashes for a significant amount of time, as they've never learned how to think, nor anything useful to think about.

Fordor?

lemmy.world?

Yes.

Ah, thats true, that is more accurate.

So he was ... testing tools for testing games, or some kind of internal process?

Oh it is gross in many ways, no argument there, gross feet, gross tabloid / social media bs...

But, this is apparently the state of modern US politics, and I wanted to give an at least semi-credible source, and not have to personally dive in to twitter to find the direct source.

Also, this is, I think, the real photo.

The fake one has MTG with only 3 visible toes on each foot.

Here, hers are splayed badly, and her pinky toes are basically crushed under/behind the sandal and adjacent toe, but you can still make them out.

EDIT: goddamnit.

Yeah, here it is, the fake, based off of the above image, that circulated around twitter:

Second of all, I am reasonably confident AoC has more toes than MTG!

...

Wait, wait wait, this is not a foot fetish thing:

https://www.newsweek.com/marjorie-taylor-greene-feet-three-toes-photo-1784369

... well, ok, maybe it is a foot fetish thing, if you're into neanderthals who've been wearing horrendously fitting shoes/sandals for so long they've deformed their feet.

Probably not in the direct sense, given that he uh 'used to work' at Blizzard.

As a game tester.

By that metric, I am an ex MSFT employee, because I did that routinely as well.

(I then went on to actually work for MSFT as a database admin/dev, but you get the idea)

He's is an extremely useful and extremely idiotic useful idiot, like uh, Tim Pool.